BBC News via Raw Story: "Tony Blair has said claims of abuse by soldiers "will be investigated" after images that appeared to show UK troops beating Iraqi youths were published. The News of the World has published pictures from a video the newspaper says was shot in southern Iraq in 2004.

"Mr Blair said the "overwhelming majority" of troops in Iraq "behave properly" and do a "great job for our country and for the wider world". The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into the video images. A military spokesman in Iraq condemned "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops, saying the allegations related to a "tiny number" of soldiers. On the tape, described as a "secret home video", an unidentified cameraman is heard laughing and urging his colleagues on...read on"

ProPublica ought to be ashamed of itself for disparaging the innocent and misinforming the public with an unsubstantiated allegation. Their doctor witch-hunts are all about aggrandizing ProPublica's fledgling media enterprise -- even if that means throwing media ethics (and a bevy of innocent physicians) under the bus. If Mr. Ornstein thinks there's a problem with pharma funding research, I propose he kindly refuse to use the products of that research -- medications that have the power to one day save his life. Furthermore, speaking for pharmaceutical companies leads to better informed physicians who provide better patient care and become up-to-date on cutting-edge treatment methods. Think about it -- you're getting doctors to stay after hours on a weekday evening -- instead of seeing their spouse and kids, they're listening to a work-related lecture until 8 or 9 PM -- the doctors aren't being paid, and they're learning how to better serve their patients, and Mr. Ornstein has the audacity to suggest that the physician delivering the lecture should do it all for free. In the fictional world where physicians are volunteers who somehow still provide for their families, pigs fly and hell freezes over. America is the land of innovative, moral capitalism -- and if ProPublica has a problem with that, perhaps China, North Korea, and Russia would be better fits for its brand of journalism...

I will continue to repeat myself. This asshole is only in it for the money. He is one gigantic hypocrite that will say anything he thinks will have the right wing base donate more money to support him and his family.